by Nathaniel R
Since I'd already seen Barbenheimer, I opted for a repertory screening (Under the Tuscan Sun, which I'd actually never seen. Why isn't Diane Lane in more things these days?), a play (Let's Call Her Patty starring Rhea Perlman, suddenly busy again considering she's also in Barbie), and a TV season I've always meant to watch (Happy Valley season 1. All of you who raved about it several years ago were correct). Over lunch on Saturday, I ran into two friends who were on their way to see Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One which surprised me since neither of them had seen Barbie or Oppenheimer!
Were you part of the moviegoing throngs that hit Barbie or Oppenheimer in their strong second weekends or did you opt to catch an older film, a different wide release, or did you hit the arthouse theater?
| Weekend Box Office July 28-30 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = Recommended |
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| WIDE (Over 600 Screens) | LIMITED / PLATFORM |
 DISNEY'S THE HAUNTED MANSION |
 THE FIRST SLAM DUNK |
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1 ★ BARBIE $93 (cum. $351.4) 4,337 screens |
1 🔺 THE FIRST SLAM DUNK (Japan, anime) $645k *NEW* 581 screens |
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2 ★ OPPENHEIMER $46.7 (cum. $174.5) 3647 screens |
2 🔺★ THEATER CAMP (US, comedy) $632k (cum. $1.5) 295 screens |
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3 🔺 DISNEY'S THE HAUNTED MANSION $24 *NEW* 3,740 screens
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3 THE ESSENTIAL CHURCH (christian right wing doc) $253k *NEW* 301 screens |
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4 SOUND OF FREEDOM $12.8 (cum. $149.3) 3,411 screens |
4 ★ PAST LIVES (US / South Korea) $117k (cum. $10.3) 95 screens |
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5 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE -DEAD RECKONING PART ONE $10.6 (cum. $139.1) 3,191 screens |
5 ★ THE MIRACLE CLUB (Ireland/UK) $96k (cum. $1.6) 121 screens |
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6 🔺 TALK TO ME $10.4 *NEW* 2,340 screens |
6 GO WEST (US) $26k (cum. $202k) 18 screens |
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7 INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY $3.9 (cum. $167) 2,165 screens |
7🔺 BOBI WINE: THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT (UK/Uganda) $18k *NEW* 2 screens |
 ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE |
 KOKOMO CITY |
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8 ELEMENTAL $3.4 (cum. $145) 2,105 screens |
8 HAVE YOU GOT IT YET? THE STORY OF SYD BARRETT & PINK FLOYD (UK, doc) $17k (cum. $40k) 24 screens |
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9 INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR $3.2 (cum. $78.1) 1,914 screens |
9 KOKOMO CITY (US, doc) $15K *NEW* 1 screen |
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10 ★ SPIDER-MAN ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE $1.4 (cum. $378.7) 833 screens |
10 32 SOUNDS (US, doc) $12K (cum. $116k) 3 screens |
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11 THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY (US, drama) $10K *NEW* 3 screens |
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12 ★ LAKOTA NATION VS UNITED STATES (US, doc) $6k (cum. $22k) 16 screens |
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13 SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (US, action thriller) $5k *NEW* 28 screens |
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14 ★ THE BEASTS (France/Spain, thriller) $5k *NEW* 1 screen |
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only 10 movies in wide release |
15 ★ RETURN TO DUST (China, drama) $2k (cum. $20k) 3 screens |
After just two weekends, Barbie and Oppenheimer are both in the top ten grossing films of the year already (#4 and #8 at this writing). Barbie will undoubtedly beat Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 (#3) and Across the Spider-Verse (#2) so the big target is Super Mario Bros Movie which is the year's highest grossing domestic release with $574 million to date.
In other box office news, Jennifer Lawrence's comedy No Hard Feelings has topped $50 million which is quite good for the troubled R-rated comedy genre these days.
Next weekend We're back to franchises with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, and Meg 2: The Trench facing off. In limited release things are more exciting since the new releases include the music drama Dreamin' Wild, the Ukranian Oscar submission Klondike, the Sundance hit Shortcomings, and the very adult bisexual drama Passages starring Ben Whishaw, Franz Rogowski, and Adele Exarchopoulous.